mate
traditional infusion from the yerba mate plant, from Paraguay, Guarani people.
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mate ranks in the top 0.58% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,551 views/month, #449 of 77,819).[1]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Guaraní people[2]
- Country: Brazil[3], Uruguay[4]
- Made from material: yerba mate leaf[5], yerba mate[6]
- Subclass of: herbal tea[7], yerba mate beverage[8]
- Part of: Brazilian cuisine[9], Uruguayan cuisine[10]
- Commons category: Mate (beverage)[11]
- Unicode character: 🧉[12]
- Country of origin: Brazil[13], Paraguay[14], Uruguay[15], Argentina[16]
- Commons gallery: Chimarrão[17]
- Location of creation: Parana River Basin[18]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21]
- Natural product of taxon: yerba mate[22]
- Different from: tereré[23], mate tea[24]
- Fabrication method: infusion[25]
- History of topic: history of yerba mate[26]
- Intangible cultural heritage status: Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial del Uruguay[27]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28], Wiki Loves Cultura Popular Brasil - Culinária[29]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[30]
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Influence
Things named for mate include Ubuntu MATE[31], a Linux distribution[32], founded in 2014[33].
Why It Matters
mate has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] mate is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]
Entities named for mate include Ubuntu MATE[31], a Linux distribution[32], founded in 2014[33].